Dynaflite DYFA3030 - Manual (Page 23)

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23. Mount the rear wire into the wing block. You
will need to notch the landing gear block so the wire
can rotate forward.
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24. Bring the ends of the wire together by the
axle. If they don’t match as shown in the above
photo, bend the rear wire to fit. Clean off any
manufacturing oil with alcohol. Sand the wires so
they are clean and shiny. Wrap the joint area with
wire. Coat the area with an acid flux to prepare the
joint. Solder the joint with silver solder and a
propane torch.
NOTE
: To improve ground handling, it is
recommended that you bend the 1/4" main wire to
impart 2Þ of toe-in to the landing gear wheel.
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25. Remove the landing gear from the airplane to
finish. Add the basswood airfoil fairing to the legs
using CA to hold them in place. Apply glass cloth to
glass the fairings to the wire and to each other as
shown. Use Bondo
® filler to blend the assembly. The
gear should be ready to prime and paint but hold
off until the cowl is ready.
NOTE
: To remove the wing when the Fly Baby is
done, unlatch the rear wire and rotate the gear
forward, then remove the wing. When transporting,
the gear will keep the fuselage upright.
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26. Mount your engine using the mounting
system you have chosen. The photo shows our
installation of the US Engines 25cc engine on our
vibration dampening mount system.
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27. Glue the 3/4" x 3/4" x 3/4" basswood cowl
mount blocks into place. Sand them to the contour of
the fuselage.
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28. Draw a line on the fuselage where the cowl
should end. Draw lines from the cowl mount blocks
back to this line. Measure from the cowl rear line to
the center of the mount blocks and write down this
dimension for each block for later reference.
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29. Fit the cowl. The plastic cowl comes in halves
and needs to be glued together. The kit includes a
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